and when he said we're going to have to take some action this has happened too many times. we'll see in the days ahead what that amounts to but, you know, people don't talk about trying to get these guns out of the hands of these emotionally disturbed people. and, you know, when people talk about gun control and they talk about taking hunter's guns away and that kind of thing, that's not the problem here. the problem here is putting these deadly weapons on a high shelf like you would put poison in a house, rat poison or something else. putting it where people who might use it for the wrong reasons are not able to get it. it's a very serious problem, it's a very complicated problem but perhaps many will be the day that starting with the president washington finally got serious about trying to do something about this. when i heard the president say these are our children it really kind of brings it home. >> o'donnell: it does bring it home. major garrett is in the press briefing room and, major, this was a very emotional president obama. >> really, norah, there's nothing i ca